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Ballasting is used to improve the stability of your tractor and ensure efficient traction when your rear implement is heavy or requires a lot of tractive force.
The most common ballasting consists in adding weight to the front to rebalance the load distribution over the two axles and improve traction capacity while controlling slip.
Here are a few articles available on our blog which you might find useful:
1. Incorrect ballasting: what are the risks for my tractor tyres
Ballasting is often indispensable for your tractor and mounted implements to ensure that your operations take place in the best possible conditions.
Depending on the work to be done, you will need to use different implements whose mass ratio for the tractor will more or less significant.
The risks of incorrect ballasting differ considerably depending on your situation, if your tractor is too light compared to...
2. Is your ballast really suited to your tractor tyres?
Your tyres have to bear your tractor’s load. Generally this means the weight of the tractor plus the weight of your implements, which represents a load that must be offset by the pressure in your tyres.
When you have an implement whose weight is transferred entirely to the rear axle of the tractor, it seems logical to compensate for this imbalance by adding additional weight to the tractor’s front lifting system to restore…
3. What are the disadvantages of using water ballast in tractor tyres?
Do you need more weight? Inflating your tractor tyres with water can improve their grip more cheaply than adding metal weights....
However, this solution comes with several drawbacks that are not often talked about, and beyond the indisputable initial savings from this solution, in the long term, it’s not as obvious. Water ballast...